First Class Servant Leader: Remembering Medgar Evers By William Wade Keye Conclusion (Part 4): Medgar Evers’ murderer escaped justice for decades. Two all white, all male Mississippi juries failed to convict him in 1964. Finally, a third trial was held in 1994. It was a new time, and Jim Crow was no longer calling the shots. A racially and gender-mixed Mississippi jury found Brian De La Beckwith guilty of first degree murder. He died in prison seven years later. This January, 80 year old Myrlie Evers-Williams, Medgar Evers’ widow, delivered the Invocation at the Second Inauguration of President Barack Obama. There is a Medgar Evers College in New York and the USS Medgar Evers, a naval cargo ship. In Jackson, a Boulevard and public library. America has come a long way since 1963. Despite fear and division, and sometimes violence, our founding ideals continue to push us forward.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:53:06 +0000
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